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Description
Position: Senior Accountant
Department: Finance
FLSA Status: Full-Time Exempt
Reports to: Director, Finance
Date Issued: January 29, 2021
Date Revised: March 2024
About Program
Polaris is leading a data-driven social justice movement to fight sex and labor trafficking at the massive scale of the problem - 25 million people worldwide deprived of the freedom to choose how they live and work.
For more than a decade, Polaris has assisted thousands of victims and survivors through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, helped ensure countless traffickers were held accountable, and built the largest known U.S. data set on actual trafficking experiences. With the guidance of survivors, we use that data to improve the way trafficking is identified, how victims and survivors are assisted, and how communities, businesses and governments can prevent human trafficking by transforming the underlying inequities and oppressions that make it possible. More details about our programs and history can be found on our web site at www.polarisproject.org.
About Opportunity
Polaris is seeking a Senior Accountant on a full-time basis. Under the direction of the Director of Finance the Senior Accountant will be a key member of the Finance Team and will support staff across the organization. The Senior Accountant is responsible for overseeing payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivables, credit card administration, ensure accuracy in the general ledger accounts and will assist the Director in producing accurate and timely financial reports.
Responsibilities
Payroll
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
General Ledger and Financial Reporting
This job description provides a summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by individuals in this position. Incumbents may be asked to perform other tasks not specifically written in this job.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Communication
Working Conditions
Physical Requirements
Grant Funding Status
This position is grant funded and is subject to modification or termination in accordance with grant agreement or suspension of funding. Polaris reserves the right to maintain the position and personnel based on organizational needs. Polaris Project is an at-will employer, and neither you nor Polaris Project is bound to continue the employment relationship if either chooses, at its will, to end the relationship at any time once your employment has begun.
Values Statement
The work of Polaris is grounded in a set of values and organizational beliefs that provide a common starting point for all of our activities. At Polaris, we look for talented individuals who are passionate about combating all forms of human trafficking and who will strive to embody and model these values within the Polaris community and in the anti-trafficking field. Please take a moment to make yourself familiar with these values and our mission statement before submitting your application. You can find a full description of our values here.
Diversity Statement
Polaris designs and implements data-driven strategies to prevent and disrupt human trafficking, and restore freedom to survivors. Achieving this ambitious goal requires both trafficking-specific systemic interventions and broader cultural and structural shifts that reduce the inequities that lead to human trafficking. While Polaris alone cannot build a more diverse, just, equitable, and inclusive society, both the success of our work and our organizational values require modeling in the workplace the change we want to see in the world.
This means cultivating a workforce, organizational culture, and priorities that respect and celebrate a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team made up of individuals with different identities, lived experiences, and backgrounds. Within both our team and across every part of our work, we strive to integrate and elevate the full range of survivor voices.
This is a living commitment. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are values to be manifested daily, in the work we do, the decisions we make, and the way that we treat each other and the people we seek to serve. This means creating space where staff can be included, heard, valued, and set up for success, and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, best selves to work. We will not check boxes and consider it done. We will push new innovations and different ways of thinking, and treasure the community built and strengthened by each of our contributions.
Full Time
$90k-110k (estimate)
04/24/2024
06/27/2024
ceopolarispr.com
Washington, DC
<25
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